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Join fellow alumni and friends for a community conversation with Dan Schwartz, Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) and Professor Emerita and Gardner Center Co-Founder Milbrey McLaughlin.

Milbrey's new book, You Can’t Be What You Can’t See: The Power of Opportunity to Change Young Lives, presents an extremely rare longitudinal account of the benefits of a high-quality, afterschool program on the lives of more than 700 youth - now adults - in the Cabrini-Green housing project in the 1980s and ’90s. Dan and Milbrey will discuss key indicators of success and how Stanford scholarship and practice are helping to create better systems of learning for diverse communities.

All Stanford alumni and guests are welcome to attend!

This event is brought to you by the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Milbrey McLaughlin is the David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy Emerita at Stanford University and the founding director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Communities. She also is co director of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching, an interdisciplinary research center engaged in analyses of how teaching and learning are shaped by teachers’ organizational, institutional, and social cultural contexts. McLaughlin has focused throughout her career on the various institutional contexts and policies that shape youth outcomes—schools and community-based institutions most particularly. The Gardner Center embodies McLaughlin’s interest in identifying and understanding the cross-institutional issues that shape with settings within and through which youth move, and in advancing a youth sector stance to inform policy and practice.

Daniel L. Schwartz is the I. James Quillen Dean and Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Educational Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE). An expert in human learning and educational technology, Schwartz oversees a laboratory whose computer-focused developments in science and math instruction permit original research into fundamental questions of learning. His book, The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work and When to Use Them, distills learning theories into practical solutions for use at home or in the classroom. NPR noted the book among the "best reads" for 2016.

ABOUT THE IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH LEARNING TOUR

For more than 100 years, Stanford Graduate School of Education has been committed to rigor, daring, and relevance in education research, practice, and policy. The Improving Lives Through Learning Tour shares how the school continues to build upon that legacy through local conversations about the future of learning.